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HOSTS
 
 
WHEN I WAS ABOUT 5, I was given my first ever water color paint set, and I was utterly transfixed. I loved the little, round tablets of color, but most of all, I was fascinated by how the colors spilt out of their dishes to swirl around and merge with other neighboring colors, creating fantastical art smudges on the white tray without any help from me. I'm trying to capture that in these works, the happenstance beauty of our childhood paint sets, the vivid scream of a single, circular color with its surrounding overflow, and how I felt art 'emerging' in me with little effort of my own. But also something more visceral. I must have been taken to church around the same time and seen worshipers receiving the Eucharist because I came to assume that my paint tablets must be just like those little, circular, sacred wafers people were eating at the alter. "Hosts" they were called. My paint tablets must have God inside them, too, I decided. That's how come they can create art on their own with me just a bystander, I believed. So... trying to emulate what I'd seen at church, I chiseled the nice, deep red one out of its tray, put it on the edge of my tongue, and snarfed it. Of course, I spit the thing out seconds later, creating a small, bubbly abstract color field surrounding a wet disc of radiant red. But—Wow!— I loved it. That was my first, formative artistic experience. I embodied it. And, I confess, I'm still a believer.
 
"The Blue Host" | Tempera, acrylics and metallics on plexi with drip tray | 36" X 36" in artist's frame
"The Blue Host" | Approximate unframed scale view
"The Purple Host" | Tempera, acrylics and metallics on plexi with drip tray | 36" X 36" in artist's frame
"The Purple Host" | Detail view
"The Purple Host" | Approximate unframed scale view
"The Light Green Host" | Tempera, acrylics and metallics on plexi with drip tray | 36" X 36" in artist's frame
"The Light Green Host" | Detail view
"The Light Green Host" | Approximate scale view with artist's frame
"The Magenta Host" |Tempera, acrylics and metallics on plexi with drip tray | 36" X 36" in artist's frame
"The Magenta Host" | Studio view with artist's frame
"The Magenta Host" | Detail view
"The Magenta Host" | Studio view with artist's frame
"The Black Host" | Tempera, acrylics and metallics on plexi with drip tray | 36" X 36" in artist's frame.
"The Black Host" | Approximate unframed scale view
"The Orange Host" | Tempera, acrylics and metallics on plexi with drip tray | 36" X 36" in artist's frame
"The Orange Host" | Detail view
"The Orange Host" | Approximate unframed scale view
"The Yellow Host" | Tempera, acrylics and metallics on plexi with drip tray | 36" X 36" in artist's frame
"The Yellow Host" | Approximate scale view with artist's frame
"The Rose Host" | Tempera, acrylics and metallics on plexi with drip tray | 36" X 36" in artist's frame.
"The Rose Host" | Approximate unframed scale view
"The Turquoise Host" | Tempera, acrylics and metallics on plexi with drip tray | 36" X 36" in artist's frame.
"The Turquoise Host" | Detail view
"The Turquoise Host" | Studio view with artist's frame
"The Turquoise Host" | Studio view with artist's frame.
"The Silver Host" |Tempera, acrylics and metallics on plexi with drip tray | 36" X 36" in artist's frame.
"The Silver Host | Approximate unframed scale view.
"The Spring Green Host" | Tempera, acrylics and metallics on plexi with drip tray | 36" X 36" in artist's frame.
"The Spring Green Host" | Studio view with artist's frame.
"The Gold Host" | 2020 | Tempera, acrylics and metallics on plexi with drip tray | 36" X 36" in artist's frame.
"The Gold Host" | Approximate scale view in artist's frame
"The Violet Host" | Tempera, acrylics and metallics on plexi with drip tray | 36" X 36" in artist's frame.
"The Violet Host" | Studio view with artist's frame.